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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR
 Dear friends and colleagues:
The Spring 2025 issue of our bi-annual newsletter allows us to reflect on the significant accomplishments of the faculty, alumni, and students of Lehigh's Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics (MEM) department. It’s been an excellent semester for Lehigh MEM. Our faculty secured exciting new research grants, launched new research initiatives, and won major research awards. Our alumni and current students also won prestigious research awards and fellowships.
In Fall 2023, we announced the MEM Aerospace Initiative and, as part of that initiative, committed to developing an MS program in Aerospace Engineering. We have been working diligently to make that happen. Last week, on the 2nd of May, as we celebrated National Space Day, Lehigh announced a new MS program in Aerospace and Space Systems Engineering as part of the Strategic Plan. This MS program comes from the successful Aerospace Minor in the department that Prof. Terry Hart started almost twenty years ago. We finally have a lift off!
If you appreciate our efforts and the direction the department is heading, please consider making MEM your philanthropic priority this year. Your support is crucial to our continued success and academic excellence efforts as we navigate financial uncertainty due to reductions in federal research opportunities. Your contributions will help elevate MEM students and faculty to greater heights.
Arindam Banerjee, Ph.D.
Paul B. Reinhold Professor and Chair, MEM
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